Subcommittee will examine the Current Situation at us cis must not be overlooked, record high case backlogs, policy changes make it harder to obtain extremely important matters that deserve careful attention. These problems have a direct impact on countless individuals, families, students, business and other entities such as hospitals and research institutions. Im sure others on the subcommittee will agree, constituents on an almost daily basis. All the us cis has struggled with backlogs since its creation the agency reports, and 2. 4 million cases, this represents 344 increase on the backlog of cases. The largest net backlog since 2003, grounding to a halt in the aftermath of the 9 11 terror attacks. Backlogs and processing delays create reallife problems for people trying to navigate complex immigration systems. Imagine a Domestic Violence survivor unable to escape abusers because there is language. Startup company abandoning a key project that will lead to substantial job creation b
Committed against people around the world today based on their faith. We are in these days witnesses to some of the most glaring and brutal attacks on this universal right of religious freedom in all of our history. Islamic state, the cancer spreading throughout the middle east and north africa is targeting christians and other religious minorities and communities for extincton. The world has watched this terror unfold day by day for over a year. More than 407 days have have past since the city of most you will fell into the hands mosul fell into the hands of the islamic state. They drove them out of the land of their spiritual heritage which dates back for nearly 2,000 years. Nearly one year has past since the attack on a community where thousands were slaughtered. 5,000 young women and young girls were taken captive. 1,000 boys were captured and forced into isis training camps. Mr. Speaker, there is no room for the selfproclaimed caliphate. Innocent men, women and children are forced
With the general an think taking place . I know whether its emerge or care, i helped start a Youth Leadership symposium in houston where im from and its still very, very difficult for us to get people engaged to sign up for these programs. So you can talk about putting these programs in the mosque or starting a sunday school class about it or putting ads in your local paper, but theres still a very, very large divide in having people in the Community Involved in this. What are suggestions practically speaking on apathy . Okay, ill go first. And thank you for sort of thank you for the question. Something that id eventually speak about when i was up there. One of the ideas we have tried to quote unyoet get the Community Involved and engaged is to get them to run for Political Office at the lowest level. There are thousand chairs in the city of houston. And about 10 of them are from our community. Our population is less than 1 or 2 approximately. Many times, its not that difficult to get
Of severance pay. It is actually built into the h1bhat created the specialty worker program. I,n miano, my coauthor and the timing ofk the book is very fortuitous. I think in some ways profit providential. At a time during an election cycle where these issues are finally coming to the four and where there is now a growing ever knowledge of this practice and the devastating impact that these policies are having on the best and brightest work a your coauthor is with the center for Immigration Studies as well. Mr. Miano, how does the h1b Guest Worker Program work . Guest well, the way it g works, actually, its a threestep process. Paris, the i employer first, the employer has to make out a labor condition application in which they certify theyre going toye be calling the socalled prevailing wage and that theyre not going to be violating certain rules. Unfortunately, this step is jusr a papershuffling exercise because once its submitted, the the president of labor is the department of labo
Costs of Higher Education and later a look at the role candidate debates play in elections. And act on immigration through executive order if Congress Fails to pass a comprehensive immigration bill. Pete sessions spoke to reporters about the issue and asked the president to work with republicans on immigration policy. We would like to see the president not do whatever hes planning on doing, but we would like to Work Together with him. But the American People deserve to have competence in the actions that the house and the senate take and the president and the president unilaterally goes and does this, he is risking once again a false hope for people who are in this country what would like to have a say and an understanding of whats going to happen, it will cause chaos, it will cause another rush to the boarder, that we have already been through, that is very dangerous for people. It creates uncertainty. We will is going to come up with a great bill in the new term where we are going to